It's an attempt to write an OpenGL Perl program that can display a fancy rotating planet,
while also displaying useful geographic information on it.

The development is in a really really early stage now (Jan 2009).
Don't expect miracles.

It's basically a 10-years old OpenGL C program,
translated to Perl like 8 years ago,
and then butchered and reassembled by yours truly during some nightly hacking sessions.

The Earth texture that comes with this distribution is a stripped down version (1024x512) of the original hi-res (4096x2048) I downloaded from Celestia Motherlode,
if I remember correctly.

If you want to use the higher resolution texture,
either find it yourself,
or write me,
or generate one by yourself with the bin/build_texture.pl utility I wrote.
You will need the mighty Imager module for that.